Welcome to the OWASP Tampa Local Chapter

funds to OWASP earmarked for Tampa.

Anyone in our area interested in information security is welcome to attend. Our meetings are informal and encourage open discussion of all aspects of application security. We invite attendees to give short presentations about specific topics.

A reminder that CISSPs can earn 1 CPE credit for every hour of attendance at OWASP meetings.

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 26 from 6 PM to 8 PM. We will be having two technical talks. For the first talk, Richard Newman will be presenting 'Taming B.E.A.S.T.' Ken Gehrke will be providing the second presentation which will be a hands-on workshop covering tools contained within the latest version of Backtrack. Their bios abstracts are below:

Richard Newman - Taming the B.E.A.S.T
Curious about the exploit which allows for the clear text recovery of encrypted web traffic? Stay tuned. In this presentation the Browser Exploit Against SSL / TLS will be demystified and explained.

Richard is a senior information security engineer with a large local retailer, has 23 years experience within IT and recently 8 years in Information Security. He focusses on computer forensics, network security, vulnerability analysis, network and application penetration testing.

Ken Gehrke - Tool Talk - Application Security
The presentation will include a brief powerpoint of general web application security concepts and discussion about some common tools within Backtrack 5 R3 and other application security tools such as BurpSuite and Netsparker. The presentation will then be driven into a live demonstration of some general web application penetration testing techniques against DVWA and NOWASP (Mutillidae) hosted on the Metasploitable 2 VM platform.

-= No wifi or network access will be required as the pen test lab is contained within VM =-

Ken Gehrke is a 12 year veteran of information security and has covered a large spectrum of security operations, audit and penetration testing over the course of his career. Ken is currently working as a private consultant and has a background working in big 4, telecommunications and health care organizations. His specialty is web application security and web application penetration testing.